“They Can’t Compete with Community”: How One Oklahoma Composter is Building Alternatives to Big Waste (ft. Terry Craghead)
On the Composting for Community Podcast, Terry Craghead of Fertile Ground Cooperative shares how he's building worker power to create alternatives to Big Waste.
Transforming Your Community’s Waste to Wealth: Infographics
Our new infographics explain Big Waste’s profitable and polluting playbook and how local composting and wasted food reduction offers a circular alternative that turns waste...
Three NYC Composting Failures That Reflect Troubling National Trends
New York City’s recent rollout of mandatory curbside organics exemplifies national troubling trends between the relationship of government organics recycling programs and community composters. …...
“We strongly urge the Mayor and City Council to halt these short-sighted cuts and commit to long-term funding of the NYC Compost Project and GrowNYC.”...
Commentary Traces History of Modern U.S. Recycling and the Potential for Zero Waste
In this recently published commentary, ILSR says cities and counties need sources of renewable capital for the generation of investment in recycling, composting and reuse...
Neil Seldman Opinion Piece: How Big Waste Degraded US Recycling
Neil Seldman, ILSR Co-Founder and director of the group’s Waste to Wealth Initiative, wrote a recent opinion piece for Resource Recycling, Inc. In it, he traces Big...
Philadelphia Community Compost Network Public Meeting
On Thursday, November 14th, ILSR, Philadelphia Department of Parks & Recreation, the PA Horticultural Society and Penn State Extension launch the City’s new Community Compost...
Reducing Waste and Recycling More, An Evaluation of Policies from Across America
Who should be responsible for the life cycle of a product, especially its take-back, recycling and final disposition? How can that process produce the most...
CERO Cooperative, Inc. was founded as a means to create environmentally friendly jobs for Boston’s underemployed and unemployed populations. Activists, joined by the Boston Workers...
Review of the “Facts” that Guide Waste Management, Inc.’s CEO
The CEO of Waste Management, Inc. (WMI) commented to CNBC that, based on the facts, glass and organics should not be collected because they lack economic...
New Help for Cities Auditing Private Trash and Recycling Contractors
ILSR and Sustainable Environmental Management Company (SEMCO) have joined to make state-of-the-art analytical tools available to city and county agencies overseeing solid waste and recycling...
Why Not Here?: A simple question that corporations and governments are being asked more frequently.
Neil Seldman Waste to Wealth Program Institute for Local Self-Reliance Washington, DC 20005 12 March 2005 Common sense is taking on a radical tone in...
Alameda County Waste Management Authority Heralded as One of the Nation’s Best Press Release
NEWS RELEASE October 3, 2002 For Further Information Alameda County Waste Management Authority Bruce Goddard Public Affairs Director(510) 614-1699 Institute for Local Self Reliance...
